Link currently only works in f-droid app

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That’s like, almost 100% identical to the Simple File Manager from Tibor Kaputa, why make a new one?

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Simple File Manager (and the other associated apps) got bought by a company, so this is a fork by a long-time maintainer that keeps it FOSS

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Great !

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So are they going to repackage those apps and sell on the playstore? What’s the purpose of buying open source apps? Or it’s just to limit open source competition?

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I think it’s all speculation so far, but I’ve heard the company is an analytics one, so it’s likely to try to sell user data

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Its not, its a fork of the simple mobile tools suite that just got bought by an advertising company. This new maintainer forked the codebase of all the apps and is maintaining the foss version from here on out so we’re not stuck with ads and malware injected into the apps we use.

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The new Calendar app is also on F-Droid now!

Edit: my bad, it’s on Izzysoft, not F-Droid.

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cand find it. Do you have a link?

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My bad, it’s on Izzysoft, not F-Droid.

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Thank you but URL returns a 404 error

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On my end it’s not showing on F-Droid, yet.

And their site doesn’t show a thing because it’s currently under construction

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Use Obtanium and point it where you want

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

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Thanks for the recommendation! Obtanium works like a charm.

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Awesome. Go into settings and set the update check to what you want, 1 hour to Manual.

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Thank you!

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